Have started to close in on the bug which was preventing me from toggling function frames in the New/Edit Post page. Started by disabling plugins one at a time. Too slow. So I disabled all plugins except those which are security related, and WP-Footnotes, which we’ve used since the first year, and seemed an unlikely suspect. So – I stayed up way too late, bad, but have solved the basic problem, and will, by the end of the day, have identified and deleted.
I’ve forced the evil troll out of the blog, and reclaimed my right to post on it.
Victory is within sight. Please be careful when – or refrain entirely from — activating plugins.
Jon